Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour
There are two ways to do this. The first is to use your finger, or any other object, as a pointer. The second is to strengthen your peripheral vision and learn to focus on chunks of words rather than individual words.
Peter Hollins • The Science of Self-Learning: How to Teach Yourself Anything, Learn More in Less Time, and Direct Your Own Education (Learning how to Learn Book 1)
To start, sit or stand and focus your vision straight ahead. Next stretch each hand out to the side like you used to do when pretending you were an airplane. Stick each thumb up toward the sky and hold that pose. Now, keeping your head straight, move your eyes to the right until you can see your thumb. If you can’t quite see it, just stretch your e
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With so-called normal reading, your eyes don’t stay fixed in one spot when reading. Eye-tracking studies have shown that your eyes actually quiver and move around considerably. These are called saccades. And every movement away from your position in text requires a few milliseconds to readjust and refocus. All of these minuscule readjustments in lo
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Speed-reading programs often recommend focusing on three words at a time to help reduce the number of jumps. But reducing your eye’s motion doesn’t speed your brain’s processing.